Traders often use pips to reference gains, or losses. A pip measures the amount of change in the exchange rate for a currency pair, and is calculated using last decimal point. Since most major currency pairs are priced to 4 decimal places, the smallest change is that of the last decimal point which is equivalent to 1/100 of 1%, or one basis point. For a trader to say I made 40 pips on the trade for instance, means that the trader profited by 40 pips. The actual cash amount this represents depends on the pip value. For currency pairs displayed to 4 decimal places, one pip = 0.0001
US States - Ranked by Population . 2018 California is the most populous state in the US by several percentage points, representing 12% of the total population. Texas, while larger geographically, comes in second with around 23 million residents, making up 8.69% of the population. However, in 2017, population growth in Texas was at 1.43%, while in California it was just 0.61%. The smallest state, Rhode Island, is actually more populous than a number of much larger states, including Montana, Alaska and Wyoming. In fact, Wyoming has the smallest population in the US, with just over half a million residents.
Alaska is the least densely populated state of the U.S. Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land area at 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km 2), over twice the size of Texas, the next largest state.